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The way in which Brexiteers expect #millenials to take up the slack of falling immigration is very revealing to me.
It speaks to the paucity of their ambitions and their achievements in life. Their horizons are so tempered & so it's what they offer.
But there is also a quite clear a sense of envy: a want to punish young people. "Throw them into the fields, let them see real work"
Except it isn't "real work". It's not "honest" work. It's what a beast does. And that is the point.
In Collodi's Pinocchio, we see what happens to the boys who skip school and focus purely on having a good time.
The de-evolve into beasts of burden. If you skip school, don't study and have no qualifications, all you can do manual labour.
And it's there we find the root. Leavers - old, male, no qualifications - want today's graduates brought down to their level.
It's the scream of "I'm as good as you". That glorious conceit that C.S Lewis' Screwtape knew would entrap man so well.
And it's a lie. The truth is #millenials are the healthiest & smartest generation the UK has ever produced.
They are obviously superior to their elders, as time will show. But for now, they have to endure their vengeance for daring to better.
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